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Louisiana Urban And Suburban Homeowners’ Fertilizer Management Behavioral Beliefs, Intentions, And Past Behaviors, Natalie Levy
Louisiana Urban And Suburban Homeowners’ Fertilizer Management Behavioral Beliefs, Intentions, And Past Behaviors, Natalie Levy
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Nutrient runoff of nitrogen and phosphorus from improper lawn and landscape fertilization practices contributes to water quality issues within the Mississippi River drainage basin and the Northern Gulf of Mexico (NRC, 2009a; Robbins & Birkenholtz, 2003). The implementation of fertilizer best management practices has become a critical strategy for reducing nutrient runoff (Carey et al., 2012a; Carey et al., 2013; U.S. EPA, 2005). The purpose of this study was to determine if relationships exist among selected perceptual measures regarding home lawn and landscape fertilizer management practices among Louisiana urban and suburban homeowners. Ajzen’s (1991) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was …
2018-2020 Chart Book, Martha Sylvia, Katherine Ghantous, Erika Saalau Rojas, Frank L. Caruso, Anne Averill, Hilary A. Sandler, Carolyn J. Demoranville, Peter Jeranyama
2018-2020 Chart Book, Martha Sylvia, Katherine Ghantous, Erika Saalau Rojas, Frank L. Caruso, Anne Averill, Hilary A. Sandler, Carolyn J. Demoranville, Peter Jeranyama
Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide
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2018-2020 Chart Book: Nutrition Management, Carolyn J. Demoranville, Katherine Ghantous
2018-2020 Chart Book: Nutrition Management, Carolyn J. Demoranville, Katherine Ghantous
Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide
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2018-2020 Chart Book: Groundwater Protection And Zone Ii, Martha Sylvia
2018-2020 Chart Book: Groundwater Protection And Zone Ii, Martha Sylvia
Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide
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2018-2020 Chart Book: Irrigation Water Management, Peter Jeranyama
2018-2020 Chart Book: Irrigation Water Management, Peter Jeranyama
Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide
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Pave It Or Plant It, 7th - 12th Grade Curriculum, Nancy Mesner, John Sanders, Tim Beach, Summer Hansen, Mckenna Drew, Gade Andrus, Ellen Bailey, Hannah Jacobson, Cole Patton
Pave It Or Plant It, 7th - 12th Grade Curriculum, Nancy Mesner, John Sanders, Tim Beach, Summer Hansen, Mckenna Drew, Gade Andrus, Ellen Bailey, Hannah Jacobson, Cole Patton
All Current Publications
Students will use simple watershed models to measure runoff from natural and urbanized areas. They will graph the data to create and compare the hydrographs of these two different types of watersheds. Students will also map different areas in their neighborhood, calculate the amount of impervious surface in the area, and determine how this affects the volume of stormwater runoff expected from a typical rainstorm. Finally, students will list different types of pollutants that enter the streams from urban areas and learn about possible impacts to the stream. They will also learn about possible methods of reducing these impacts through …
Lignocellulosic-Based Bioenergy And Water Quality Parameters: A Review, Bharat Sharma Acharya, Humberto Blanco-Canqui
Lignocellulosic-Based Bioenergy And Water Quality Parameters: A Review, Bharat Sharma Acharya, Humberto Blanco-Canqui
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications
High rates of crop residue removal as biofuel feedstocks could increase losses of nonpoint source pollutants, negatively affecting water quality. An alternative to residue removal can be growing dedicated bioenergy crops such as warm season grasses (WSGs) and short-rotation woody crops (SRWCs). Yet, our understanding of the implications of growing dedicated bioenergy crops on water quality is limited. Thus, we (i) synthesized and compared the impacts of crop residue removal, WSGs, and SRWCs on water quality parameters (i.e., sediment and nutrient runoff, and nutrient leaching) and (ii) identified research gaps for growing dedicated energy crops. Literature indicates that residue removal …
Smallholder Farmers, Environmental Change And Adaptation In A Human-Dominated Landscape In The Northern Highlands Of Rwanda, Apollinaire William
Smallholder Farmers, Environmental Change And Adaptation In A Human-Dominated Landscape In The Northern Highlands Of Rwanda, Apollinaire William
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
Climate change and crop intensification are key challenges to the livelihoods and wellbeing of the majority of rural smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly in human-dominated, climate-sensitive landscapes such as the northern highlands of Rwanda where issues of fluvial floods, soil erosion pose serious threats to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. In this mixed methods study conducted between August and December 2015, I explored smallholder farmers’ perceptions by examining what barriers might hinder the process of agroforestry adoption by smallholder farmers, what socio-economic and physical factors and attitudes influence crop choices, motivations for smallholder farmers’ willingness to plant trees within …